Men Long Jump Athletics I World Championship 1983 Helsinki, Finland - Wednesday, 10th August

Men Long Jump Athletics I World Championship 1983 Helsinki, Finland - Wednesday, 10th August - Gold Medal: Carl Lewis, United States

Final		Distance	wind	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Carl Lewis	United States	8.55m	+1.2	8.55+	-	8.42	-	-	-
2. Jason Grimes	United States	8.29m	+0.6	8.29+	X	8.23	8.29	X	8.17
3. Mike Conley	United States	8.12m	+1.1	X	8.06	X	8.12	8.12	X
4. Laszlo Szalma	Hungary	8.12m	+1.5	X	7.93	X	8.09	8.08	8.12
5. Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	8.09m	+1.1	7.80	5.54	7.94	5.99	7.76	8.09
6. Gary Honey	Australia	8.06m	+1.4	7.86	7.93	8.06	X	7.94	7.96
7. Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.06m	+0.3	7.94w	7.79w	7.92	7.91	8.06	X
8. Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.89m	+0.6	7.89w	X	7.89	7.85	7.89	7.74
9. Gheorghe Cojocaru	Romania	7.88m w	+2.6	7.81w	7.88	7.70
10.Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.84m w	+2.3	7.64	7.84	7.80
11.Oganes Stepanyan	Soviet Union	7.74m	-0.4	7.74	X	7.59
12.Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.69m w	+2.1	7.52	7.69	7.54
13.Mu-Tsai Lee	Chinese Taipei	7.57m	+0.6	7.57	6.89	7.09

Men Long Jump History

World Record: Bob Beamon, United States 8.90m Mexico City, Mexico 18th October 1968

Lewis, winner of the 100m gold, was required to contest two more titles two days later. Minutes after anchoring the United States to victory in their sprint relay heat, he made a delayed start to the long jump final. Hitting the board well he soaredout to 8.55m, comfortably further than the 8.29m opener of Grimes. Lewis turned to the stand and raised his arms high in salute to the crowd. After missing the second round, Lewis produced 8.42m before passing the rest of his series to concentrate on the relay final where he anchored his team to a new world record time.
Grimes, meanwhile, compiled an excellent series despite never threatening Lewis. A close battle for the bronze was won by Conley - fourth in the triple jump - in the fifth round. For the second time in Helsinki, Lewis had led a United States sweep of the medals.
There was great excitement after Lewis’s first jump when one TV commentator saw the bib number of Lewis - 892 - flash onto the screen and announced this as a new world long jump record.

Qualification - Tuesday 09.08

Mark 7.90m 11+2 Athletes

Group A		Dist.	wind	1.	2.	3.
1. Jason Grimes	United States	8.29m w	+2.6	8.29w	-	-
2. Gary Honey	Australia	8.12m	+1.5	X	8.12	-
3. Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.05m	+1.3	7.32	X	8.05
4. Oganes Stepanyan	Soviet Union	8.01m	+0.8	7.82	7.88	8.01
5. Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.96m	+1.8	7.96	-	-
6. Mike Conley	United States	7.90m	+0.2	7.88	7.89	7.90
7. Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.88m	+1.5	7.88	7.88	7.64
8. Mu-Tsai Lee	Chinese Taipei	7.88m w	+2.7	7.44	7.51	7.88w
9. Lester Benjamin	Antigua Barbuda	7.81m	+1.6	7.81	7.78	7.41
10.Stephen Walsh	New Zealand	7.75m w	+2.3	X	X	7.75w
11.Gyula Paloczi	Hungary	7.70m w	+2.4	7.42	7.70w	7.40
12.Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.70m w	+2.4	X	7.70w	X
13.Ka-Chiu Chan	Hong Kong	7.31m	+0.9	X	X	7.31
14.Bilanday Bodjona	Togo	7.15m	+1.9	7.15	6.91	6.82
-. Steve Hanna	Bahamas	DNS
-. Ian James	Canada	DNS
-. Vlastimil Marinec	Czechoslovakia	DNS

Group B		Dist.	wind	1.	2.	3.
1. Carl Lewis	United States	8.37m	-1.3	8.37	-	-
2. Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	8.11m	+0.8	8.11	-	-
3. Laszlo Szalma	Hungary	7.97m w	+2.2	7.97w	-	-
4. Gheorghe Cojocaru	Romania	7.92m	+1.1	7.92	-	-
5. Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.90m w	+3.6	7.90w	-	-
6. Sergey Rodin	Soviet Union	7.87m	+1.1	6.95	X	7.87
7. Yuhuang Liu	China	7.77m w	+2.2	X	X	7.77w
8. Joey Wells	Bahamas	7.69m w	+2.5	6.44	7.69w	X
9. Rene Gloor	Switzerland	7.68m	+0.5	X	7.68	X
10.Jarmo Karna	Finland	7.56m	+1.7	7.56	7.54	X
11.Marco Piochi	Italy	7.52m	+1.8	7.29	7.42	7.52
12.Bjorn Johansson	Sweden	7.51m	+0.6	5.78	7.51	6.96
13.Wilfredo Almonte	Dominicana	7.38m	+0.6	7.38	X	7.21
14.Laoui Adnan Abou	Jordan	7.12m w	+3.5	X	7.06	7.12w
15.Mohamed Abdulla Abdelaslam	LBA	6.76m	-1.3	X	6.76	6.54
16.Said Al Marhubi	OMN	6.20m	+1.8	X	6.20	5.80
-. Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	NM		X	X	X